Texas’ most influential universities and their most famous alumni

Updated 12:58 pm, Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Did you know? WWE wrestler Shawn Michaels and country crooner both went to the same Texas university.

Find out where in Texas they and other entertainers, sports stars and politicians went to school ...

Did you know? WWE wrestler Shawn Michaels and country crooner both went to the same Texas university.

Find out where in Texas they and other entertainers, sports stars and politicians went to school ...

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Here’s the school Influence rankings for more than 25 Texas colleges and universities – placed in order of least influential to most influential – along with some of the famous alumni who attended school there at some point. less

Here’s the school Influence rankings for more than 25 Texas colleges and universities – placed in order of least influential to most influential – along with some of the famous alumni who attended school ... more

Time Magazine has just rolled out "The Great Influence-Off," a college-by-college power ranking of the most influential universities in the nation based on their past alumni.

More interesting than that actual scores – like we really needed math to tell us that the University of Texas was more influential than Angelo State University – is finding out which famous folks attended which Texas schools.

Check out the school influence rankings above for more than 25 Texas colleges and universities, from the most influential to least influential, along with some of the rich-and-famous who attended school there at some point.

Oh, and for what it's worth, here's how the University of Houston compares to Rice in a one-on-one battle of the Bayou City schools.

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